By subverting the voluntary nature of open standards, Apple has defanged them as tools that users might use against the totalising power of native apps in their digital lives. This high-modernist approach is antithetical to the foundational commitments of internet standards bodies and, over time, erode them.| Infrequently Noted
Readers may recall that Japan recently passed the Smartphone Act, officially the Bill on the Promotion of Competition for Specified Software Used in Smartphones. Among its most important reforms is a direct prohibition on Apple’s long-standing ban on third-party browser engines on iOS.| Open Web Advocacy
According to Open Web Advocacy, Apple continues to impose technical and financial restrictions on iOS browser developers, such as Mozilla or Google, to prevent them from using their own engines.| Mezha.Media
Apple is defying the EU’s Digital Markets Act by blocking rival browser engines on iOS, protecting Safari’s immense profits. The result is the company ruining the open web.| victorwynne.com
» Up the kriek: Apple gets punchy in Brussels DMA compliance workshop| brucelawson.co.uk
